Making Mirrored Ball & Panoramic HDR Images, part 2

Fred Ruff continues his look at creating mirror ball HDR images with part two of his post “Working with Mirrored Ball HDR Images” starting from shooting the images, creating the HDR in photoshop, and unwrapping them to something useful in a 3d application.

“I already talked about creating chrome balls and parnoramic HDR images, now let’s talk about how to use them in max. This article covers just the mirrored ball technique. We’ll talk about panoramic images in a follow up article.”